No Kukiland can be granted,legally: APSCS
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, July 29 2023:
While pointing out that there can't be a land for Kukis alone for that matter any community or any religious community, Association for Premier State College Seniors, Manipur (APSCS) maintained that no Kukiland can therefore be granted as there is no law to deal with such cases because the land belongs to the state.
In a release, APSCS general secretary AK Chishti welcomed the parliamentarians who are visiting Manipur for assessing the ground situation and table report in the parliament.
Pointing out that genesis of the problem lies with series of enrolment of many Kuki migrants/foreigners in the electoral roll of Manipur with an eye to capture political power, Chisti substantiated his claim by stating that those clamouring for realisation of the Kuki were actually illegal immigrants who have been granted the voting rights.
The demand for a separate administrative arrangement for tribal areas it seems, was already raised and agreed by the centre.
For the execution of the same they are now creating havoc for us and the centre also caught in the quagmire they created, he opined.
It is not tenable that Meetei & other community areas in Cachar/Silchar, Guwahati, Nagaon, Simalu-guri, etc., of Assam and other places of Myanmar and Bangladesh are handed over to Manipur simultaneously because when lands are purchased from the government no community name was necessary or used for the settlement (for building homestead or farmland).
This is the law of the land, he continued, while adding that there can't be a land for Kukis alone for that matter any community or any religious community.
So, the August House of Parliament must deal with this demand firmly and purposely before it is too late, he added.